○ Tutorial: Adding content and activities to published templates
Scenarios
- You have started making a learning journey, but you won't be finished in time. You do already want to give learners access to the parts that are finished.
- You want to bundle learning journeys and get learners started, but you have not made all the content yet.
- You have already subscribed learners to a course, but you want to add some new activities to the course.
Required roles
Author - for making new content
Designer - for adding content to a template
Administrator - for creating courses to subscribe learners to.
1) Publish your template
Build yourt learning journey as far as you can in your template and publish it.
Make sure all activities and blocks you have already have content. You cannot publish empty activities or blocks, and in turn cannot publish your template if you still have empty blocks or activities. This means that you cannot already make a structure with empty activities and or blocks.
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2) Create a course and subscribe learners
Once you have published a template, you can create a course. Do not subscribe learners yet if you are planning on making a bundle in step 3.
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3) Create bundles and bundle courses and subscribe learners (optional)
If you want to offer multiple courses in a bundle to learners, all templates you want to use for this have to be published. Once a bundle course is created, you cannot add any additional templates to the bundle.
If you have not made any content yet for a specific template, create at least one block with one activity in which you provide some information on what will be featured in this learning journey.
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4) Continue making content and add it to blocks and activities
If you have made content via the content is not automatically linked to the template you want to use it in.
Link the content by selecting the tab Content Management in your template.
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5) Publish blocks and activities
You can only publish a block once all activities in that block contain content.
This means that you can publish a block with just one activity. After publishing, you can add new activities to the block and publish them at a later time.
Next to all blocks and activities, you see a small globe icon. An activity/block is published when the globe is light grey. Unpublished activities/blocks can be published by clicking the dark grey globe.
Once you click the globe, you can select in which courses you want to publish the activity and notify learners of the newly activtated activities.
You can also choose to not select any course and send a notification to the instructors. They in turn can then decide when they want to enable the activity for the learners.
You can edit these notifications:
- Activity available
- Publish course part
Keep in mind that many activity settings cannot be changed or any content added once the activity has been published. You can add content to lesson and documentation activities even if they are already published.